Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

I wonder if he needs glasses or if that's his version of Blue Steel.

Thank u for the helpfully labelled picture of a witch hunt, didn't know what one looked like before.

So the fight against corruption by the corrupt is taking donations. Lovely.

He looks like he's crying yet again...

That Rasmussen tweet deserves some photoshopping and posting to his feed when it regress to its 43-45% mean.

I rather hope this is the signal of full bus underthrowing that I think it is.

Gingrich: Someone's going to jail in Russia investigation, but it won't be Trump https://t.co/L2bt2PfmpC pic.twitter.com/7F6GcmROX6

— The Hill (@thehill) June 17, 2017

He means Hillary

Amazing!

IN A NEW YORK MINUTE

OOOH OOOHH OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

they're not supposed to quit -- mr. trump is supposed to fire them!

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-doesnt-care-about-hiv-were-outta-here-626285

Whoops!

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke will not take Trump Homeland Security job https://t.co/MnJpnJSM46

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 17, 2017

i wonder if mr. trump will resign soon :(

A remarkable and plausible story from March which we missed:

Why FBI Can't Tell All on Trump, Russia (whowhatwhy.com)
https://whowhatwhy.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/image06.jpg

That's so cartoonish but hey here we are. Also I think about Mailer's Kennedy theory that the FBI couldn't really get into Oswald because hey couldn't NOT prove that they didn't have a hand in it

Good NYT plunge into Flynn and his business world.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/us/politics/michael-flynn-intel-group-trump.html

It beautifully complemented my morning coffee a couple hours ago.

A useful peek behind the curtain

Sen. Angus King (I-ME), part of Senate Intel, tells @chucktodd collusion/coordination aspect of their invest. not over. "We are 20% into it"

— Kailani Koenig (@kailanikm) June 18, 2017

King adds Senate Intel's investigation is complex, involving thousands of pages of intel docs, lots of witnesses, etc. https://t.co/nAjF8C67MW

— Kailani Koenig (@kailanikm) June 18, 2017

Separately, a hilarity

Jake: So Trump said "I'm under investigation" even though he isn't?

Trump lawyer: The president isn't under investigation. It's that simple pic.twitter.com/BakMGggjFq

— David Mack (@davidmackau) June 18, 2017

we just tell him he is because it gets him aroused

laurence tribe has been compromised

Endorsement and validation of the conspiracy theories continue. Especially dangerous because, to public, it carries the Harvard imprimatur. pic.twitter.com/Hb2IAVMhcC

— Andy Grewal (@AndyGrewal) June 17, 2017

And with Ailes gone, Gabriel Sherman has a new white whale (and why not)

Source close to the WH told me other day that Bannon and Priebus have all but stopped trying to get Trump to stop tweeting insane things 1/2

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) June 18, 2017

Advisers stopped raising tweets with Trump because he lashes out when he's feeling controlled by staff. Legal team is pulling hair out 2/2

— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) June 18, 2017

I honestly had wondered

For those wondering if Sheriff Clarke ever actually received a job offer, I've obtained a copy of the letter from DHS Human Resources pic.twitter.com/RIcZgDfThb

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 18, 2017

Well, of COURSE when you campaign explicitly against Federal employees, even the admins and mail-room ppl will hate you and work to thwart you.

I can't parse what I'm supposed to think about that lawrence tribe thing. is the level here "there's people who buy into false conspiracy theories that might help unseat the president OR that might not pan out and thereby strengthen the president's position?" or what, can somebody break this shit down for me

Serious question: why do reports on these urban/rural studies ONLY EVER TALK TO THE RURAL PEOPLE? https://t.co/azzwQ1qtmB

— Roy Edroso (@edroso) June 18, 2017

So the weird Rosenstein memo wasn't trying to get ahead of anything but was instead trying to cover for Trump's admission of being under investigation in that morning's tweet? Is that right?

We may never know.

You have two groups of people: One thinks the government should try and help everyone, the other thinks government should help no one. And then the second group gets mad that the first group gets more help from government? Fuck off.

My mom, who's 92 and knows a thing or two, has adopted the anti-social-Darwinist motto: Everyone does better when everyone does better. She put a bumper sticker with this onto her walker.

It's just simple: When you use all your political capital on ensuring that some people can't piss in the bathrooms they want to piss in, you don't have political capital to get as much stuff for yourself. Get your priorities in order.

I want the same bumper sticker as Aimless's mom.

Holy crap. This exchange between Chris Wallace and Trump's lawyer is absolutely incredible. pic.twitter.com/Wem33Lc1VK

— David Mack (@davidmackau) June 18, 2017

I can't parse what I'm supposed to think about that lawrence tribe thing.

Law professors at Dartmouth and U-Iowa are stupid assholes, that's my takeaway.

Wow, that fox clip is so much fun it almost made me forget how fucked we are.

can you imagine being a functioning adult human and taking a clown like Sekulow seriously? like how fucked up is your life/ reality?

Law professors at Dartmouth and U-Iowa are stupid assholes, that's my takeaway.

― El Tomboto, Sunday, June 18, 2017 2:46 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*whispers* dartmouth doesn't have a law school

Is the president not not not not under investigation?

Well whatever the guy teaches that Grewal was tweeting @

Steely-eyed Trump laywer guy's media blitz is really amazing to watch. Both the CNN and Fox clips linked above... I mean it's two entirely different versions of a deranged non-answer. I guess I give the edge slightly to the CNN version where, when Trump Tweeted "I am being investigated," what he meant to type was "I am not being investigated" or maybe "The Washington Post says I am being investigated," but those would have taken him over the 141-character limit. Tapper, who can be forgiven for not anticipating this line of argument, has not run the numbers and thus cannot point out that the the actual tweet in question tops out at 111 characters so actually both of those would have fit just fine.

Also none of this matters because the tweet's implied argument is facile nonsense anyway but man, it's good to be reminded once again of just what cynical hacks high-paid lawyers can really be. Imagine the long billable brainstorming hours coming up with wtf he was going to say about this crap, then the moment of crystallization around this line of defense, and the deep breath of determination to bark it out, over and over and over and over. We're live in five, four... Game face on, reminder to self to mention the five ANONYMOUS SOURCES?!?!?!! as often as possible in a two-minute span. It's go time.

I saw that guy on Meet the Press this morning. My head was swimming trying to follow him--it reminded me of O.J. writing a book that explained how he would have done what he almost certainly did except he didn't really do it.

Lmao at that Fox clip.

"Let me be crystal clear..." <-- people who are never crystal clear after saying they will be amirite

Copyright:

http://funeraladvertising.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/nixon.jpg?w=300&h=273

"Chuck, I think you're reading more into that tweet than what's there" (brain explodes)

To think that Chris Wallace is by far the best FOX anchor.

How is this real

Every thing Trump and his associates say or do is like the dumbest thing they could possibly do in that situation.

To think that Chris Wallace is by far the best FOX anchor.

Does Shepard Smith no longer work there?

it's a symptom of affluenza, is my latest theory. we need to raise taxes to help these fools

xpost

weird Rosenstein memo

Twitter rumor is that some European intelligence agency has some kompromat (but not the one mentioned from the Steele dossier) and is deciding whether and how to release it. Hence the odd wording about identifying the country of a source.

nice

Those of you who weren't obsessed with TBN in the 80s, Jay Sekulow is a longstanding evangelical dude. used to appear on PTL Club all the time with his legal take on stuff that, at the time, was quite fringe. He has decades of experience and is really dogged and focused in his goals, he's a real-deal ideologue. He also plays in a band with John Schlitt from Petra and John Elefante from Kansas, they do a mix of reactionary CCM & classic rock covers eg Boston.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om-oM-gXPEs